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Vocabulary - Exceptional English Words With Meanings 19 May 2020
Here some exceptional English words from the newspaper ‘The Hindu’ are given with their synonyms/antonyms and usage. Hopefully, this will help you improve your vocabulary.
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1. PROPINQUITY (noun) – समीपता, सान्निध्य
Pronunciation: pruh-pin-kwiti
Meaning: the state of being close to someone or something
Synonyms: proximity, closeness, nearness, adjacency, contiguity
Usage: The neighbours lived in close propinquity to each other.
2. INEQUITY (noun) – अन्याय, बेइंसाफी
Pronunciation: in-ekwiti
Meaning: lack of fairness or justice
Synonyms: unfairness, injustice
Antonyms: fairness, justice
Usage: It remains necessary to address the current inequity between the standards for men and women.
3. BENIGHTED (adjective) – अनाड़ी, मूर्ख
Pronunciation: bi-nai-tid
Meaning: in a state of pitiful intellectual or moral ignorance
Synonyms: ignorant, unenlightened
Antonym: enlightened
Usage: They saw themselves as bringers of culture to poor benighted people.
4. CRAMPED (adjective) – तंग
Pronunciation: krampt
Meaning: uncomfortably small or restricted; (of handwriting) small and difficult to read
Synonyms: restricted, confined, constricted, compact, tight; small, crabbed, pinched
Antonyms: spacious; flowing, bold
Usage:
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He cooked for himself in the cramped kitchen.
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A computer will be able to decipher my cramped handwriting.
5. PULVERIZE (verb) – चूरा करना, पीसना
Pronunciation: pul-vur-aiz
Meaning: reduce to fine particles
Synonyms: grind, crush, pound, crumble, powder
Usage: The seeds can be used whole or pulverized into flour.
6. ABSTRACTION (noun) – भाववाचक
Pronunciation: ub-strak-shun
Meaning: something which exists only as an idea; a state of mind in which you keep thinking about someone or something because that person or thing is important to you
Synonyms: concept, idea, notion; distraction, preoccupation, daydreaming
Antonyms: fact; attention
Usage:
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Morality is an abstraction with no physical form or presence, existing only in the hearts and minds of people.
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His search for single solution forced him into abstraction.
7. BESPATTER (verb) – छिड़कना
Pronunciation: bi-spatuh
Meaning: splash drops of a liquid substance all over an object
Synonyms: splatter, spatter, splash, speck
Usage: The car bespattered my suit with mud.
8. SMATTERING (noun) – थोड़ी मात्रा; थोड़ा ज्ञान
Pronunciation: smaturi-ng
Meaning: a slight superficial knowledge of a language or subject; a small amount of something
Synonyms: bit, little, modicum
Usage:
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He only has a smattering of French.
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At that time, the college had a smattering of teachers.
9. LEAVEN (verb) – खमीर करना
Pronunciation: levun
Meaning: cause (dough or bread) to rise by adding yeast
Synonyms: raise, ferment, work, lighten
Antonyms: shrink
Usage: A little yeast leavens the whole lump of dough.
10. BEREAVE (verb) – वंचित होना
Pronunciation: bi-reev
Meaning: be deprived of a close relation or friend through their death
Synonyms: deprive, dispossess, rob, divest, strip, orphaned, widowed
Usage: He was bereaved of his wife last year.
Now, choose any 2 or 3 words and try to use them in your own sentences, this way you can retain the learnt words in your memory for long time. You can share your sentences in the comment section.
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